Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

— David Foreman

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of…

— E. O. Wilson

The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.

— Alice Roberts

“One of the great challenges in reconstructing a mass extinction is making sense of what happened when. In the same way we have divided…

— Bill Nye

Every species we cause to become extinct we come closer to our own extinction

— Unkown

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont…

— Paul Watson

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough…

— Bill Mollison

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small,…

— Asa Gray

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one…

— Donella Meadows

“We cannot predict the behavior of the whole, complex, connected system. We cannot know what will go wrong or right. However, we can be…

— Bill Nye

“How will humanity react when it realizes that it has survived an extinction event?”

— Bobby Adair